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But keep in mind that with the death of THQ and the buying of IPs, there might be some issues with sales in the future. DD services have contracts with THQ and THQ's distributors, but they might not have contracts with whoever buys the IPs and the rights to the games. Or, even better: Company A might own the IP but Company B owns the dev team who has some of the rights to the title (sort of like what happened with Operation Flashpoint where Codemasters still owned the name but BiS owned the game). Most likely they'll get dealt with eventually and past experience shows that games won't be taken out of your accounts, but you might not be able to buy the games for an indefinite period of time.

In fact, it is 99% likely that this is the reason we are seeing so many sales. The DD services want to get rid of their stock while they still can.

Steam: Gundato
PSN: Gundato
If you want me on either service, I suggest PMing me here first to let me know who you are.

But keep in mind that with the death of THQ and the buying of IPs, there might be some issues with sales in the future. DD services have contracts with THQ and THQ's distributors, but they might not have contracts with whoever buys the IPs and the rights to the games. Or, even better: Company A might own the IP but Company B owns the dev team who has some of the rights to the title (sort of like what happened with Operation Flashpoint where Codemasters still owned the name but BiS owned the game). Most likely they'll get dealt with eventually and past experience shows that games won't be taken out of your accounts, but you might not be able to buy the games for an indefinite period of time.

In fact, it is 99% likely that this is the reason we are seeing so many sales. The DD services want to get rid of their stock while they still can.

It registers on Steam and you can redownload games on Steam even after their companies take them off.

It registers on Steam and you can redownload games on Steam even after their companies take them off.

Yeah, to my knowledge, the only game that has ever been removed from Steam accounts was one of the Alien Shooters and that was just because the dev through a hissy fit and insisted people only play his re-release. And even that got overturned after just about everyone had a conniption.

My main point is that this might be a "Buy now because you won't be able to buy it for a while" scenario.

Steam: Gundato
PSN: Gundato
If you want me on either service, I suggest PMing me here first to let me know who you are.

I was thinking of getting the Sword of the Stars complete collection (1 & 2) on GG, wondering why it was $4.99 while SotS 2 was $4.98 when suddenly the collection price changed to $6.23. Good old GG. Anyway, it's 75% off this weekend, now with a list price of $24.95 instead of $19.95. I need to learn to jump on these mistakes faster.

GOG is having a Superb Strategy Weekend with lots of old strategy titles on sale. I picked up King of Dragon Pass, a title I wasn't even aware existed since I wasn't doing much gaming in the late 90's due to a messy divorce.

Glorantha is possibly my most favorite RPG setting and I was a huge fan of Runequest so this was a no-brainer for me.

I backed Dreamfall Chapters to secure an early-bird spot, assuming Funcom would capitalize on the hoopla/help create potential backers for Red Thread by putting the first two games on sale, but it never happened. Fuck it, that $20 would buy most of the GOG games I'm after.